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Southern states like Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama named least healthy in the US – while residents of Washington, Massachusetts and Utah are considered the best off, report finds

Author:     MANSUR SHAHEEN
Source:     Daily Mail
Publication Date:     15 August 2022 | 18:00 EDT
 Link: Southern states like Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama named least healthy in the US – while residents of Washington, Massachusetts and Utah are considered the best off, report finds
Stephan:   I have been telling my readers for over a decade that wherever Republicans have been voted into a control of a state that the social wellbeing of the people in that state declines. The question, of course, is why do the people in Red states vote for people who sabotage their wellbeing. The answer is fear, hate, racism, sexual dysfunction, resentment, and christofascism, if the voters are even smart enough to recognize what that is. This may sound like a politically partisan comment, but it is not. It is simply a statement of objectively verifiable facts. Red states, particularly in the South, are beginning to look like failed states because the difference between the social outcome data of Blue states compared with Red states has become so pronounced.
  • The healthiest states in America are concentrated in the west and northeast of the U.S. – with Washington, Massachusetts and Utah leading the way, a new report finds
  • Meanwhile, the least healthy states are in the south – with the report naming Louisiana the worst off, followed by neighboring Mississippi and Alabama 
  • Experts have blamed higher smoking rates and less ‘walkable’ cities as reason for the poorer health in many southern states
  • Southern states often have higher poverty rates as well, a factor often linked to many of the causes of poor health 

Southern states are the least healthy in America, according to a new report.

NiceRx, and online pharmacy platform, gathered data on obesity, smoking rates, exercise levels and diet from 49 of 50 states, and used data to generate a ‘health score’ for each that rates the overall health of each state from zero to ten.

The bottom of the list is entirely made up by states in the U.S. South. Louisiana is the least healthiest state, with a score of 1.32. Nearby Mississippi (1.46 health score), Alabama (2.08), Kentucky […]

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